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minus-squarejkrtn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·6 months agoPerhaps it was the English teachers who were wrong. Correct or not, people have been using it like that for a while. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
minus-squarehenfredemars@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-26 months agoFascinating! I didn’t know there was an article about this. This use of singular they had emerged by the 14th century, about a century after the plural they. That’s more than official enough for me!
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·6 months ago Singular they has been criticised since the mid-18th century by prescriptive commentators who consider it an error. Hey, it’s prescriptivists again, ruining everyone’s day Look what’s actually recent (if three centuries count as recent, but definitely more recent than seven centuries ago)
minus-squareDojan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months ago My child dresses itself. “Ma, I’m a boy!” I adore how callous that sentence sounds.
Perhaps it was the English teachers who were wrong.
Correct or not, people have been using it like that for a while.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Fascinating! I didn’t know there was an article about this.
That’s more than official enough for me!
“Ma, I’m a boy!”
I adore how callous that sentence sounds.